skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a track record of getting stuff done

I wonder how one can prove to have a track record of getting stuff done. If we exclude hobby projects / open source contributions, I have no idea how I could show any kind of track record. I'm not allowed to talk about the projects I do at work, for example, and I don't have time or motivation for hobby projects after work.
Not that surprising considered that myself went to boarding school at that age (a bit older, at 5). It's pretty much everything that the pictures describes.
Source? That linked article is from when facebook used subversion.
Individually, sure, it makes sense, but the fact remains that the emergent behavior of the system seems to be the ossification of capital.
Yup, that’s a great lib! But it’s plain css, though, not very customizable. Check out this port to Sass, available as a SCSS Compass ruby gem: https://github.com/Sewdn/animate.scss
IMHO the real race in the NoSQL world is CouchDB versus Riak. These are the two teams to watch.
Salary = paid to the employees
Payroll = Salary + benefits and taxes
Personel = Payroll + contractors
That bed is not good for sex.
The People have traditionally accepted/embraced police state tactics and brutality to fight "the war on drugs" because they fear drugs. Without that embrace of irrational fear, we would have never given the police the tools and leeway they have today.
If all of the Javascript code and application functionality is bundled into the add-on, it's trivial to avoid XSS. There's no "site" to script into via the URL, and rendering of dynamic elements can be done via a sandboxed iFrame, preventing any scripts from running within dynamic data. This is fairly basic security that any add-on developer should be aware of: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/sandboxingEval.html

"XSS isn't the only way either." That's about as illuminating as saying "something bad could happen."

No one is saying JavaScript or browser security is perfect, but if you actually know what you're doing, it can be done properly.

The original "JavaScript security is doomed" Matasano article is extremely out of date at this point, and yet people keep referring to it like it's gospel.
Hey thanks!

I think you can monetize pretty early with your model, so once you rake a few thousand dollars in per month and show that it will be in the ten thousands in three months, you can easily get Angel investment.

Once you have decent traction, nobody cares about the "billion-dollar" startup anymore and everybody invests ;)
You can limit read and write access on users. It's documented on this page: http://influxdb.org/docs/api/http.html. We haven't implemented the specific column limits part of that API yet so feedback would be great. Does that take care of the use case you were thinking of?

However, security is probably not something to bother with in sandbox since it's not HTTPS. We're looking at it now, and should have it back up in a bit.
I use FileVault built into OSX.
I don't think we've quite worked out the language here yet.

I use "webmail" to refer to a remote hosted web interface. GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, riseup.net, etc. This is the dominant way that people access email, and it's not possible to secure well because of the "webapp crypto problem."

Mailpile, on the other hand, is a locally hosted MUA that happens to use your web browser as the UI. I think it's a great idea, leveraging the UI properties of a web browser, but with everything running locally.

All development of a new secure email protocol has been stymied for the past 13 years by webmail. It is not possible to provide end-to-end encryption if you don't perform that encryption on the client side, and in the webmail world there is no "client."

I'm excited about Mailpile because it could be what gives us a usable local MUA, which is the precondition to deploying a nice, modern, usable, end-to-end encryption protocol.
Oh, I misread that! Anyway, I think anal searches should be allowed, and getting a warrant is probably the right way to go about it.
My problem with xfce and most other Linux desktops is that they look like a Windows desktop from the early 2000s. It's an aesthetic that I don't personally enjoy; I'm much more of a shiny/fancy user, which is why I like Aero, or to a lesser extent, Mac OS X.

I suppose that's part of why I don't bother with GUIs on *nix systems.
At the bottom of the page: "REMOTE - the eventually-bestselling book about working remotely."

Cheeky.
Agreed. Also, Google's weakness that a startup can exploit is their almost non-existent Customer Service. Google wants to scale massively from day one, so manual, 1-on-1 support can never be part of the plan (unless they go meta and create a Helpouts for Helpouts, probable actually). If Google entered my space, I'd just up the customer hand-holding game and start posting testimonials about it.

Kevin Hale of Wufoo comes to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBWFfxE2658
In the US, a felony is anything that has a maximum sentence of a year or more. So you could be convicted of a felony and only serve 6 months in prison because your sentence was reduced by mitigating circumstances or as part of a plea deal, but you could never be sentenced to more than a year for a misdemeanor.
This is awesome and I hope XFCE remains the default. I will love and use debian forever, either way.
You can't really compare EC2 sans EBS to something like a dedicated server. Most apps need permanently available storage.

Of course, if you don't need permanent storage (and your needs are bursty) than using EC2 is probably a huge win.
It's kind of sad really. I'd love to have a big office with a dedicated center to some really awesome equipment. It's like a work of art that you crafted yourself, right up to the cable management!
> But someone posts a link on HN, and people bitch and moan because the primary subject of marketing is sporting a beard.

I see two posts making fun of beards. Two.

Why are you even making this discussion? Meta discussion is frowned upon on HN. If you feel someone's discussion is off-topic, down-vote them and move on.

The irony is your meta discussion is now the top-voted post, instead of discussion on the actual product.
If I remember correctly, it has to do with disclosure requirements.

Corporate-IR (or whoever runs that domain) meets the criteria/is authorized for disclosure of information to investors.

Other companies use them too, for example NVIDIA: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=116466&p=irol-ir...
Oh got no please no... I use Angular freakin "JS" extensively.

At some point, I believe I will come to a position not to touch anything that has even a remote connection to Google. Just a couple of years ago I worshipped Google, now I feel they are always taking my toys away.
Have Apple loosen their restrictions on background services? This is neither VoIP, music or navigation. Any ideas how they slipped this through the approval process?
>The big problem with smartphones is that if you forget to plug it in at night

I hear that complaint a lot as well. Just not something I've ever had a problem with. I set it on the nightstand and plug it in when I go to bed. I don't think I've ever forgotten to do that.
Right; I was talking about the private version of Lavabit, where you aren't obliged to trust a service provider.
It seems to be a US-only phenomenon. I have yet to see a non-US company which allows remote working and restricts the location within its country.
An important gotcha regarding Cloudformation - there is no way to recover from a failed rollback (except maybe to contact amazon support). So it's basically only safe for initial setup of resources.
Google Fixes Chrome’s Saved Passwords Mess
Any idea what the average storage take per user was?
Secrets of running a six-figure Airbnb business
Certainly an oldie. That list dates back to about 1991, based on the email address of some of the shell script quines in it.

But it has links to other things, such as this one: http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/self_iter.txt Is this the first collection of "ouroboros" programs?
gcc does this as well (though it also supports #pragma once). I believe the current convention is to prefer #ifndef include guards as it is more portable and most compilers can detect and avoid re-including files with them.
Good work man!
'Biohacker' implants chip in arm
I imagine they'll give up once they realize all the steam behind AngularJS won't easily transfer over to Dart.
Faster than Safari on the 5s or faster than Chrome on the 5s?

Chrome has no access to the iOS Nitro JS engine so a difference would certainly be expected.
Then I think it's time to look at a mail system that doesn't need servers something built on top of the bit torrent grid or similar system that the government can watch all they want but won't get any information back from it and have it completely open source... this will take out man-in-the-middle and a central server compromised issue and there will be no one to legally strong-arm.
The Scandinavian nations are pretty solid non crony cap states, as are the old standbys of Singapore and Hong Kong.

No nation is pure, of course. But we can look at examples of crony policies within otherwise capitalist-ish nations and compare to less crony-ish policies within those same nations.

It all gets a bit muddy real quick, but I guess we have to do the best with what we've got.
Google Helpouts - New platform/marketplace for exchanging any type of knowledge
The tech inside the house visually appears to be mobile home tech not self contained RV tech. So you'll need the $10K septic field, the $10K electric power line, maybe natgas/propane for heating/cooking, a $5K and up water well or $10K to connect to city water if available, it adds up.

(edited to add I forgot to add the cost of a foundation, in the south the freeze line is like 2 inches, but where I live I believe its 4-5 feet, so you're already spending 90% of the cost of a full basement, may as well finish it off and have a basement, but thats another $10K perhaps for something this small?)
I was genuinely surprised that the diff was so small. It's a sign of a a well written and factored system. In more average codebases big changes like that would likely require changes in multiple places and also cascade changes to related modules.
Also, every startup has tons of different problems at micro level even though macro themes are consistent (e.g. getting new customers etc.). It will be hard to generalize problem solving across startups.

I don't see why. Startups aren't some magical beast unmatched anywhere else in the world. They're small businesses.
There is another very underrated DVCS called Fossil (open source, C) - http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki
Yes, as of iOS 7 any app can run in the background.
Hopefully the new window.crypto stuff could be used to createa a hosted webmail service where the private key is generated in the browser and never leaves the browser.
Look at Xubuntu. It looks nothing like older windows.

You can apply themes to xfce that make it look just as modern as anything else. Debian tend not to go in for applying sparkle to their default installs, so try not to judge based on their defaults.
And good point I forget that the web is basically insecure from government intrusion :[
There also does not appear to be a shower.
Re number 2, is disabling apps from settings not a stock feature? I've never needed to hide apps in the drawer, I just disable them and they never bother me.
Putting something that big under your skin can't be good. I would also imagine flying will be a nightmare.

Then there is just the risk of infection, and the scars... And I can't see girls thinking the scar from where you had your arm amputated because you stuck something stupid under your skin with self surgery and had an allergic reaction, or infection is considered "sexy".
This one?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5787892

Interestingly, it seems like they recently sold it to NASDAQ:
http://corporatesolutions.thomsonreuters.com/investor-relati...
any jobs for a first-year university students
Not to pile on, but a storage startup should have had a systems person among the 7 employees. I would do it in the first 10, but the only reason it wouldn't be in the first 5 is that I have the skills myself.

It's really unclear we would have been able to go this far in the first place without AWS.

You could have drastically cut your burn on that last $550K by hiring a sysadmin and bringing it all out of AWS (maybe keeping S3). This would have likely also involved retooling on the app side, but in the long run it would have given you more time for positioning/promotion/etc. All in all, 4th Gen is way late for this.

P.S. Number of photos is basically irrelevant, were you actually using market-fit metrics for infrastructural decision support?
When does face scanning tip over into the full-time surveillance society?
There are private equity funds that do this kind of thing at a slightly later stage. I think the window between a startup that burns fast enough that it needs a big exit and one that burns slowly enough to not need VC at all is pretty narrow though.
Since you are already answering questions: when can we expect BitTorrent Inc to publish the protocol or at least add the option to run and use your own tracker for syncing?

SyncApp is wonderful but I don't feel comfortable with it being closed source and your infrastructure being used. Thus I use it only to transfer files between computers I wouldn't mind sharing with the world.
Because they say that each person has 190 friends on average based on a Facebook data survey linked just below that vis.
Hyperbole aside, the point is that it's possible for Google services to be successful but not successful "enough". They're willing to shut down services that have devoted followings. So , whenever you consider investing in a small service from Google, you should understand that could accomplish all its goals and still be shut down.
It's strictly from a code monkey perspective. If you want to be a coder, you really don't need to go to school. If you want to take it to the next level and learn the theory behind what you are doing, get a degree.

I dropped out, or semi-dropped out because I wanted to be a frontend/UI guy and learning shit like C++ and basic C/PERL/PHP <3 (seriously) for two years, while paying 10k/year, was super pointless.

I'm saving now for a proper degree, and the rent to go along with it. Probably going to do electrical or computer engineering, because that, you can't really learn online like you can HTML/CSS/JS.
Which doesn't address my point at all. E.g. if you'd said "create[d] a climate that nurtures shit like this." we'd be in closer alignment.

I've seen that totally irrational fear in well educated, nominally rational parents, where I get them to accept that The War on Drugs is creating a police state for their children to live in, and they still prefer it.

But I believe we're way past that point, and if I'm right, if it's now institutionalized in a way where such fear has become irrelevant to its perpetuation, then you might want to listen to me if you're searching for solutions.
>Why does this happen even when the instance isn't using all of its CPU?

Probably hypervisor does not assign CPU every time it is requested but it still manages to assign as much as needed because in the end there is some idle time left.
Network card rootkit offers extra stealth (2010)
Funnily enough MacOS itself used to have bluetooth proximity unlock built in, in 2005.

It also could receive and send SMS on the machine and pause/resume music on phone call.
As someone else mentioned in another comment, it may be a "wet bath" as found in smaller RVs and on boats. The whole bathroom converts to a shower, basically, by having all surfaces water-tight. It's a very efficient use of space, but very few larger RVs have them, because they aren't considered comfortable by some; keeping them dry and clean is reportedly an issue.

I've been thinking about tiny houses for years (and I've live in a motorhome for about five years), and I think I would prefer to build slightly larger and have a nice bath and shower. But, in other regards, small is beautiful.
I think the relevant standard should be: focus on the core of your business, outsource everything else.

If you are a photo backup company, storage is (or at least should be) part of your core.

It seems like they tried to take the heroku route, repackage aws services with premium software and sell it for a premium. But forgot to charge the premium end user price.
You can't influence the outcome of a lottery ticket (aside from picking rarely chosen number sets). You can influence company success. In practice there is still a difference.

Edit: I'm responding to the general idea of startup equity being equal to a lottery ticket. I haven't read the specific job posting in question.
35k/month in aws bills. 6k paying users. 10% upgrade rate.

That means their storage + servers per customer cost ~$.5/month. Storage per paying customer of about $5/month.

Ergo their $5/mo service has costs of $5/mo per paying user.

This isn't a failure to raise funds, it's a failure to achieve basic unit economics. And that's just cost of goods sold before you even think about acquiring new customers or paying staff.
Now, if such Open Source systems could be compiled with a mechanism that could ensure that only "blessed" executables could run, and if there was also a process where 3rd parties could compile their own executable and verify what is executing on the server, then there would be a solution to this dilemma.

Unfortunately, that would be DRM, which evokes knee-jerk cries of "Evil!" The point here is that DRM is not fundamentally evil. The particular way that lots of companies want to use it and slip it into everyone's machine under the radar is most certainly bad. However, there are situations where it would actually be useful and help protect individual rights. (In particular, when it is used by individuals as a tool to protect their own interests.)

(Yes, I know I'm preaching to the choir, but this is really for 3rd party readers.)
English is not my first language. I'm not part of the culture that connects the word Ninja to someone specialized on something. When I first read about "LiveNinja" I had to think hard to figure out what this service was about. I don't know how this service could ever be understood/accepted outside the circles where the word "Ninja" makes sense. On the other hand we have a service from a global company that uses "Help" as prefix on its name. IMHO, I see a big difference here.
I just rejoined Thislife.com, now part of Shutterfly. For Smugmug lovers, I also created Smugsync which will sync iPhoto to Smugmug => smugsync.net
Github for writers is big though dude. Get some traction and everybody will lick your toes!
This is what back in 2010... I wonder if this is the kind of things are out there today and we just do not see them.
Actually, as a person who used most of these and built things similarly this project seems very interesting and useful and tackles a lot of the annoyances of those above. Kinda a combination of otsdb and esper but without a big requirement of setting up other technologies (I don't have to become or hire a HBase expert to maintain it). Having a bunch of online algorithms executed against the data is exciting too from a perspective of future improvements alsom I would love to see anomaly detection built in.
Yeah, think of something like earnings reports. It's very important that no one gets early access, and very useful to have a third party handle it so you can prove that no one has early access. And if the third party screws it up, they get investigated by the SEC, not you.
The real magic is that after you sink enough hours into high-quality code, you can write the high-quality stuff just as fast as low-quality code.
> I am using Git on Windows on a current project and it is still far from what Mercurial was offering on my previous project in terms of usability and resilience to infrastructure issues.

Which part exactly? Git seamlessly integrates into Putty/PLink/Pageant and tortoise-git does the same. Git also has excellent support for end of line conversions. Mercurial last time I was checking required an extension to deal with line endings.
I think many of these kinds of designs are very expensive, and often not as sustainable as I'd like.

When I finally settle down and build my own tiny house, I will likely start from an existing structure. Either a classic RV (like an Airstream of Avion) or a shipping container, and build up from there. It'll still end up costing about $15k-$30k, but I'd also like to reuse old materials wherever possible; not so much to save money (as I have a decent income), but to reduce waste and environmental impact. All of these "sustainable" building designs always use so much newly manufactured material. It makes it somewhat less impressive, to me. Another option might be natural building materials; cob, earth bag, etc. I've only recently started learning about them. Though they have other issues...they take of a lot of space, and often make it more difficult to build up, when you need more space. Tiny houses built with conventional modern building materials can be quite tall without a lot of extra effort. At the very least, a loft bedroom is pretty useful in building with a smaller footprint.
There's a tremendous body of evidence showing improved cardiovascular outcomes -- ie, reduced heart attacks and strokes; even, in some studies, improved survival -- with statin use. Aside from lowering LDL, they appear to have direct anti-inflammatory effects within the vessels. I've heard anecdotal mention of memory problems with statin use, but have never been convinced I've seen it in any of my patients.

A representative example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Simvastatin_Surviv...
Eight prong health benefits of using ginger in daily life
Improving democracy with lines of code
Oh get off your high horse. "VC kids", really?
Clicking "FAQ" below gets you to http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

It ends with

"In my profile, what does showdead do?

If you turn it on, you'll see all the submissions and comments that have been killed by the editors. They're mostly spam and duplicates.

Who are the editors?

About 30 YC alumni. They can kill stories and edit the titles, and in extreme cases (e.g. spamming or deliberate trolling) ban users.

In my profile, what is noprocrast?

It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on News.YC. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero."

That leaves 'delay', and introduces the question how that override works.
reminds me of epl http://esper.codehaus.org/esper-4.2.0/doc/reference/en/html/...
I'm using AngularJS. But this Dart news is a dark cloud. I will never use Dart, or anything that locks me into Google's walled garden. I view Dart as a major negative.

Hello Ember.
Thanks for taking the time to write it!
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