skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. All this article really gives me is a brand comparison of both products. I know what to expect from Google, and Helpouts is probably familiar in the brand vein of Hangouts. However after reading this article I'm left with a sour brand impression from Liveninja. I get that vibe of nerd machoism from the tone of the article and the product name, ninja pirates and robots oh my.
How meta! Not only are you bringing up the reciprocity principle to further analyze this phenomenon, but you're also offhandedly analyzing your actions as human instinct.
Apparently, it is impossible to bite "down"
I'm on the speaker selection committee, and I'm impressed with the line-up of talks this year.

We have Travis Oliphant talking about conda, Peter Wang on Bokeh, Wes McKinney on Pandas (of course!), Jake Vanderplas on SciKit learn, and many others!

I, myself, am giving two talks: one on advanced techniques using generators and one on different ways to embed Python into other applications (including a novel Python3-running-within-Python2 embedding!)
Only on devices with glued glass. Of course glueing it on the rims and leaving a huge air gap would do all that.

if you do decent product design instead of copying every bad decision apple made, you'd have the glass framed. It would have no discernible air gap. all the things you said would be just as fine. and it could be replaced by removing the frame, probably with screws.

but no, let's use corning glass (with lots of impurities so it is crack prone but hard to scratch... the perfect glass to be framed) and use it on the whole front of the device so it is guaranteed that it will break if the device falls.

sometimes i really wish apple had had it's way on the illegals claims about owning design elements. we'd at least be safe from their bad choices.
Facebook has a stranglehold on the web?!
Migration is documented; I'd love to make this process easier, but the disk sizing is problematic

http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/migrating-...
I'm glad that he didn't...in a hopeful sense anyway. I would have preferred this post to come after they truly did crush google in this space, as I think it is an inspiration to the small/new guys who intimidate and bully themselves from ever doing something because they just think that google and friends will swoop in and do it faster and better.

I have my reservations, but I hope that these guys create a better product and end up being bought out by google in the long run.
Looks like the TroveBox hosted service has increase price dramatically, and going for a more professional market.
"But I can't take any money for it"

Yes this is an area where "the minecraft mod community" in general doesn't seem to understand the (recent) history of the FOSS movement. Not invented here syndrome on a very large scale. debian.net doesn't redirect people thru adfly to download DVD ISOs yet none of the devs are starving, and so forth.

Another area of comedy is the early 90s-like "lets make our own license" and the result of programmers trying to practice law is generally about as comical as lawyers trying to program. Yet the modding community with no sense of history has some amusing home grown licenses (sorry no links at top of my head). I compliment you personally for not falling victim to that trap (I looked at your github) but many modders have some truly weird homemade licenses.
One man's manipulation is another man's manners / ingenuity. Do you manipulate your parents by talking to them differently than to your friends?
yo, owe u all doin?
An alternative explanation is that perhaps HN is user-hostile because it respects the community. I sometimes get the vibe that HN is deliberately rough around the edges so that anyone who stays here and participates is doing so because they love the content and the community, not because the site is pretty or because they like gaining karma points.

Personally I'm of the opposite camp, that it's nice to make your app/site as easy on the eyes and sensibilities as possible, but then HN is not exactly trying to grow or get a million members or sell anything. It's just here to foster constructive discussion of hacker-related news.
Is there a huge difference with s3cmd?
Right, I agree that it looks like their business model was flawed. That said, that should've been the rejection status code instead of the billion-dollar opportunity remark.
Author thanks google for copying its product, hope googles outcompetes him? Is there some tragic irony in play here or is this guy just a well wisher?
I hate to be that guy, but for some reason I'm unable to let this one pass by. It's trivial, and in no way reflects on his point (to the degree that he has one...the article is shockingly light on any concrete information), but for some reason this bugs me.

> This is more like a squeeze bunt back to the pitcher and you're out at first base.

You're supposed to be out at first base on a squeeze bunt. That's what a squeeze bunt is. You give yourself up so that the runner from third can score.
If you were an Everpix fan I would love to hear from you, our startup Pivotal (http://pivotal.ws) is doing something very similar and we would love to hear what you liked and didnt like about Everpix and how you would make it better.
YES. I often play around with different desktops (xmonad <3) but I always end up in XFCE.

In the past I end up in Gnome 2, but now XFCE is my all purpose desktop.

I don't really like KDE 4, Gnome 3 or Unity (hey it's my opnion, mmkay). XFCE is the big guy left. The others feel exotic, new or just not stable enough (like cinnamon). XFCE seems a perfect match for Debian.
Live Anonymous march in Central London
As a user, I get pissed off with acquihires, or pivots. Those can feel like a breech of trust.

This is different. It's pretty clear that the Everpix team worked hard to deliver the service they were selling, and in the end, failed.

I love(d) Everpix. It really did solve my photo mess, and their daily "flashbacks" were a welcome dose of nostalgia, delivered to my inbox every morning. There are other photo services that do similar things to Everpix, but none that can match their unique combination of pricing, ease of use and the brilliant flashbacks.

I'm sad that I lost a service I really really liked, but far from pissed off, at least at the company itself. They created an awesome service, and hopefully one that will soon be copied by a more financially stable successor.
25 isn't a large-enough sample size for type of analysis.
We have just 50 years to prepare for a supernova in our own back yard
Can somebody explain the difference between salary, payroll, and personnel? As far as I can tell, this money goes to employees. However, with a sum of roughly $3.8M, this seems a bit high for 6 employees over 2 years ($270k+/employee/yr), so that can't be right..
Ask HN: Hacker News rate limits and robots policy?
I'm writing a program that checks Hacker News for updates and I've discovered that it's pretty easy to get my IP address blocked, even at a modest access rate. Is there an official HN policy about robots or at least some explanation about the limits?

I notice that https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt declares Crawl-delay to be 30, meaning that a remote entity should not make a request more than once every 30 seconds. However, I've managed to get myself blocked even with much longer delays than this. I'd think this misinformation would cause problems with search engine crawlers, unless HN gives them special exemptions.

FWIW, my observation is that HN seems to block my IP address after it has made ~1000 requests, even if this is over a very long period of time. In my latest test, polling on a 2-minute interval got me blocked after 34 hours. Maybe others can share their experiences?
Macports fixes Octave installation for OSX Mavericks users
Our sales guys can go through a couple batteries a day while traveling. They pack extra batteries since they can easily swap them out. The guy with an iPhone is jealous.
Love the site and design.

BUT something already does this, for free, it's called keycard.

As someone else pointed out, very hard to find on app store, then also, it suddenly costs $3.99 in app store. YOU HID THAT PART NICELY.

One other thing, why name your zip file "latest.zip" - took me a good minute to find it in download folder.

Apple should already have this crap built in with new ios/mavericks though :( Also, does it work on my mac 2010? Doesn't look like it. >.<

Since iOS 7 - nothing works for this type of setup, Knock, or Keycard.
Linus doesn't work on git anymore and I don't see what Linux has to do with anything. GitHub is to me the main reason for the success of git which I've discovered is incredibly difficult to use without GitHub. BitBucket good for me.
We've dropped our minimum investment To $100
OP here, would love to get comments from the HN community.
Surprised it doesn't exist already.
There's an official API that's much easier to work with and doesn't have aggressive precautions in place - http://hnsearch.com/api
Explain to me why LiveNinja is better - I've thought that a product like LiveNinja (or now Helpouts) was needed for a while, and you've got me convinced Helpouts is shit and LiveNinja is better.... until you didn't actually explain why.
I doubt many people favor CDs over usb drives because they fear that somebody might rewrite the image on the media in the minutes between writing the image and actually sticking it in the other machine and using it.

In fact, it isn't even clear to me that CDs are favored in the first place. Everybody I know has been just using netinst from a usb stick for quite a while now... CDs are probably primarily used by people who want to give other people the install media, people who can't boot from USB on their computers, and people who still have a stack of CDs that they want to get rid of.
Isn't the problem that, while the house may cost $30,000, the land on which it would have to reside will inevitably cost far more than that?
An innovation here is treating parts of the world like cellular automata at times

Dwarf Fortress used cellular automata for water and lava before Minecraft [1]. It also had a from-the-ground-up crafting system with complex production chains, with geology and ecology playing a major role.

Again, this doesn't determent what Minecraft developers created, but they didn't come up with these concepts from scratch, as many people assume. (Even the article says they were inspired by DF.)

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131954/interview_the_m...
"We have over a quarter-century of offline-ONLY desktop applications to draw on"

I agree. You can't even span a table cell in Google Docs. Wordperfect 5.0 could do this over 20 years ago. This is not progress.

So many "cloud" or browser-based apps have limited functionality compared to their desktop equivalents. The makers of these apps tout the simplicity of these apps as a selling point. But simplicity is not necessarily the absence of features (in fact, simply removing features could be argued as the lazy way of simplifying your app).

What's more, online apps give companies unprecedented opportunities to track online behaviour. This is one reason why I would never use Google's ChromeOS. Even something as simple as printing to your desktop printer requires signing into Google's cloud printing service. It's clearly in the interests of Google (and other online app companies) to sell the idea of online apps and services as the way forward. I'm certainly not convinced that it is the way forward.
Really appreciated this info and will check out that book -- looks great.

As a biz dev guy for a web development company, the thing i'm struggling with is how to bank on cold-emailing as a sales approach when there is so much variability/unpredictability. Sure, someone might pass on your contact to a referral, etcetera, but i'm having a hard time justifying devoting so much time on an outbound marketing campaign a la cold emails when the results are scattershot. How does this low cost marketing campaign you speak of fit within the composition of the rest of your sales efforts?
> practical minimalism

> slightly goofy credibility-straining setup

> tension-relieving drop-dead-simple interface

I'd have bought it already if not for my MacBookPro not supporting "low power bluetooth".

The sales pitch admittedly has nothing to do with the technology - yet that's practically the point! There's no specs to sell, no user interface to demo beyond a "knock knock" so simple you don't even have to take the phone out of your pocket. There's almost nothing to sell, yet what there is has value ($4, ok); how do you sell that? A just-a-guy in casual attire in a simple & slightly non-sequitur space works just fine. Simple product, presumably easy development, first-mover advantage (this thing will have a thousand duplicates overnight), near-zero ad production cost.

As for complaints about security: this is like the iOS fingerprint reader...it's not for serious security against serious attackers, it's about just locking your front door while making it easy for you to get in.
It isn't an easy read. It took me two readings and about 6 months to really start to crack the depth of the ideas.

Many people come away with only the shallow surface message and end up worse off for it. (Also acts as a nice filter)
I think you're going to be disappointed. The only way this could work is based on network participants, and that's highly subjective. But here's an idea that might be plausible.

You have four nodes in your network: B, C, D, E. B wants to send E a message, but doesn't want anyone who might be observing the whole network to know.

B sends garbage messages all day at random to all active peers on the network, or as close as possible. We'll assume an even distribution of these random messages. When it comes time to send the correct message, it gets delivered just like all the others. This really only works if each message is received by a real peer.

What you get is a constant stream of communication at random, in which case you know 99.9999% of it is junk, and maybe 0.0001% is real. At this point the observer will start drilling down into everything possible to increase the probability of detecting the authentic message. You'll have to prove none of their methods would be able to improve that quality, but an actual cryptographer would be a better person to ask about that.
I'm not sure if that's rigidly enforced. As in, I really do not know. I definitely feel like I've seen it used in non-financial registrations since then but I could be wrong for sure.

Just the birthday and sex will severely limit the RRN list, yep. I've once read that public trust in Korea is one of the lowest in the world, but I've found it to be completely the opposite. Public trust is so high that people seem completely oblivious to how insecure their system infrastructures can be.
Are you aware of Pivotal Labs and Pivotal Tracker? http://pivotallabs.com/
>"Wanting to box Mike Tyson in his prime is a death wish. Maybe not the best analogy..."

Probably not.

Though, the thing that Iron Mike brings to mind in the context of startups for me isn't his impetuous style, impregnable defense or ferocious offense. It was the way so many of opponents we're seemingly defeated before the bell.

Tony Tucker gave strong evidence he wasn't invincible and Buster Douglas proved it. They did it by maintaining composure and confidence in both cases.

The lesson, I think, is to understand the challenge in front of you, attack it intelligently and be fearless in doing so.
Living in the mountains of Northern California with crappy cell coverage, I hope thinking "offline first" really takes off. Through my day I pretty much only use apps that can "hold it" until we get to another wi-fi or cell coverage oasis.

Besides my personal coverage challenges, any mobile app should just be smart enough to handle loss of connection gracefully as a matter of course. It's one of the error conditions (along with low battery) that is guaranteed to happen.

I will definitely be watching hoodie for my own projects. Most of the US (by area) is in the same boat, I suspect.
Another example is Facebook Poke and Snapchat.
Keep believing that.. we all know you're shivering with fear because Google entered a market you're in :)
complete waste of time this article ;|
It would only be detected if the Lavabit certificate was pinned by the browser. Otherwise the browser trusts the CA.
I think you're comparing apples to oranges here. Dropbox was different and still is and came after Google and Microsoft were building their stuff.

In this case, LiveNinja was first, Google copied it, apparently building the exact same product.

So, I'd read the original post as "please buy us" as well.
How Groupon dismantled a monolith with Node.js
Ok, that does make more sense in the context of dealing with those unfamiliar with the problem space. And I agree that it's good to have something to bring to the table, as it can demonstrate the fitness of the proposed solution, or if nothing else, provide a starting point.
Garantia Data Raises $9M for Redis & Memcached Cloud
Plutonium Powered Pacemaker (1974)
Ask HN: What does this stuff in my HN about mean?
showdead:
noprocrast:
maxvisit:
minaway:
delay:

Just wondering, not really a help file.

Also my HN account is 1910 days old. Wow. :D
SOURCE OR GTFO
The tech industry "meritocracy" at work.
* One other thing, why name your zip file "latest.zip" - took me a good minute to find it in download folder.

ls -lrt ~/Downloads
A primer on perfect forward secrecy (PFS TLS)
A squeeze bunt also results in a run. Which is appropriate because maybe Google is doing this to indirectly improve their brand or another business area.
Thanks! We also went through a similar assessment and came away with kairosdb being the favorable option. Have not started any integration so early thoughts would be helpful. We def favored cassandra over HBASE and the little work we did with opentsdb went well.
Same with mine. I have a macbook pro retina
By nefarious means, do you mean illegal? Was it government policy to intervene in those illegal acts or to let it happen?
>Use ZFS and RAIDZ with EBS

That's a really cool idea, and I'm curious to see what kind of performance losses will occur during normal usage.
this is only a couple contractors for a couple of years. totally reasonable.

also, a lawyer may have taken 10-15% of this all by himself, especially if venture capital is involved.
If you don't mind sharing, where do you buy such servers for around $100? I'm thinking about setting up a home lab...
I am, we know long term we will have to change the name and already have something lined up but we figured it best right now to keep the current name. Make a bunch of mistakes and then rebrand.
True. Crudely speaking, some applications might be interested in high-frequency jitter ("how bumpy is it here") and others might be interested in low-frequency overall paths ("where in your neighborhood did you go").
idea being you let them execute for rev share :)
This past weekend I installed KDE 4.10 on a FreeBSD 9.2 vm using the new "pkgng" tools. Completely painless. KDE 4.10 is very polished.
I disagree. It sounds like they had a great product, but they didn't have a good enough business.
If I was a billionaire, I would set up some sort of screening lab for scientific/academic/research papers. There would be a statistics division for evaluating the application of statistical methods being used; a replication division for checking that experiments do actually replicate; and a corruption division for investigating suspicious influences on the research. It would be tempting to then generate some sort of credibility rating for each institution based on the papers they're publishing, but that would probably invite too much trouble, so best just to publish the results and leave it at that.

Arguably this would be a greater benefit to humanity than all the millions poured charitably into cancer research etc.
For product development, remote working is one solution. I work remote with my team all the time. Sometimes you need to see each other face to face, then meet up somewhere where it's affordable. Could make for a good team field trip even!
Or effective means of making a point.
VersionEye now supports OpenSearch
twitter apparently uses murder: https://blog.twitter.com/2010/murder-fast-datacenter-code-de...
delay is to defer publishing your comments for x minutes

noprocrast[inate] is an option to have self-banning on/off, if noprocrast is yes:

- maxvisit is how many minutes you can visit for

- minaway is the minimum amount of time you can't come back for after a visit
Technological advancement is necessary for protecting India from international thugs (Please check the world history).
Have emailed you.
(j/k crowdfunded equity is going to be a shitshow)

hehe..

I just sunk my last $20,000 in your app, man. Now you are shutting down and getting cushy jobs at Google? Fuck that, where's my money? I will stalk you and your new boss on LinkedIn until you explain WHERE THE FUCK my money is. My wife is leaving me and the kids want to go to Disney World.
Maybe LiveNinja is the player on third :)
Glad to get in touch at d.pitrolo [the usual sign in the middle] gmx [dot] com
OP is a fag.

Sincerely Google.

PS. Shadowbanner, you are a fag too!
Also, BLE support on most 4.3 devices is just broken. Fitbit's experience: https://help.fitbit.com/customer/portal/articles/987861-andr...
New Amazon EC2 GPU Instance Type
I'm a little ashamed to say that this is the first time the shutting down of a service almost brings me to tears. A couple months ago, burglars entered my house and stoled --among other valuable stuff-- our laptops (wife's and mine) our cameras and with them a lot of pictures from our first year married. While I was able to recover some from iCloud and Dropbox and instagram, my wife was crying hopelessly for the lost of her photos.

The truth is, handling photos and backups is hard and time consuming. I was so happy when I started using Everpix just last month. I was so sure that I will never have to worry about backups and storage and that my photos would be always safe. Naive, I know, but I wanted to believe.

Have they charged me $20 a month, I would have been more than happy to pay.
"What I’m seeing when I look at Helpouts is some of the exact same mistakes we made over a year ago, while our company was still in private beta."

The guy should to a short intro on the situation, put this paragraph an then lists all what is wrong with Google's approach and why they are the one got it right.

Instead the article feels like a lot of mixed paragraph s with the author feelings or whinings with no point at all.
Nexus5 or GN3 for T-mobile? The ONE must have feature for me in native tethering, which is available on the Nexus4, and I presume will be available on the Nexus5. Thoughts? Thanks.
Its not a personal insult. This system just doesn't provide serious protection from "dragnet surveillance". Distributing keys and allowing the client to encrypt a message to another user ala GPG is a great idea...you just can't use server delivered code to do it in the traditional web server/browser way. The JavaScript is modifiable in transit.
"locally grown" GPL'd scripts (general utils); most bash, some perl; bash function library

Want to share these simple, general utilities, handy tools,
or convenience wrappers - most bash, some perl. Categories:
script-infrastructure libraries, text filtering, log creation/parsing,
simple network-related, regex, time, mail, cygwin, latex, jobs,
processes, pathname, file or file-archive related, m4, make, system, and backup:

Been writing shell scripts since late 80s, still humble,
and learning; appreciate constructive code review.

http://TRodman.com/scripts
(~400k tarball w/installer)

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Tom

Linux/devops scripting admin for HIRE; resume/skill assessment: http://TRodman.com
One benefit it had for us was it helped us study our competitors closer and deeper to explain how we are different
You are assuming that everyone that has a website and/or blog knows what we're talking about.