skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the figures in this verge article it looks like the S3 costs were almost immaterial.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-d...
Users don't have to manage and back up their keys---or even know what a key is. Scramble does it for you.

As a user, why would I want to delegate my key management to you? Encrypting the email I want to send to a person with their public key is what gives me a sense of trust that what I am sending is encrypted and only readable to that person.

However--as the example of Tormail and others show us--the server cannot be trusted to serve uncompromised client-side code, even if the organization behind it is well intentioned.

So then why am I trusting you with my PGP keys?
This Algorithm Can Tell Your Life Story Through Twitter
However, if you're writing katamari code (that is, a tangled ball of garbage), you're sacrificing long term productivity. It seems like most people definitely don't err on the side of too high quality.
Neat product. FYI, on your home page, I get the background image, then "Watch This" > (I click) > "Watch This" goes away, but nothing happens. And content below the fold is not visible or hinted at. (Mac OS X 10.7.5, FF 25)
> While this is possible in theory, it hasn't happened in a free market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil
Actually, it's nice to have both. you may have something already that is doing a lot of queries and this way you can swap this database in and not have to change the queries much.
I don't really care for the product, but that is a great video. Love the music selection, the editing, wording, concept, everything really. Great execution.
"Hello to all the tech journalists out there. This is pretty boring. Why don't you write a story about monads instead?"

Brought a smile to my face.

Posting this from a Wheezy/non-free install on a recycled Thinkpad X60 with 1Gb of RAM. This laptop manufactured in December 2006 will run Gnome OK but there are issues about scrolling large documents in LibreOffice and general responsiveness that bring me back to XFCE.

Surely Jessie defaults at this stage are mainly for those testing the installer?
> How does this not drain the iPhone battery?

This is answered right on the linked webpage: Bluetooth Low Energy.
You can just write data in on the fly. Time series get created when you write the first point. You also can create new columns on the fly. And there's no enforcement of a data type across all values for a given column. That's on the user.
...saying that I am name calling? Can you quote me where I did that?

You seemed to be calling me a capitalist, but I'll accept your apology if you clarify that.
It doesn't actually unlock your machine. If you lock your computer it will not work. What it does is put up a page that looks nearly identical to the login page with small changes. It's a cool app (I tried it) but I'm disappointed that I can't find a way to toggle the lock via Alfred/Keyboard shortcut.

I can get in the habit of hitting a key combination/alfred command when I get up but having to click the icon in the menu bar will get annoying.
Essentially part-time specialist employees. Hiring them full-time would have cost a lot more.
And here's Amazon's response to that - http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/05/amazon-replies-to-authors-r...
They broke the mime types for the video files - the Firefox console shows how it's rejecting each <source> option.
Let me break this down a bit:
USD 500k at USD 2k/man day = 250 man days

A US man year has ~235 man days, so that's just roughly 1 external FTE for a year. Not so much, actually.
What you said applies more to you than it does to me.
BlueProximity does. It's a Linux tool, Mac OS X support is pending.
That sounds much more interesting. Solving key exchange and message transport in a friendly way, then using a native client has possibilities. I think that's the direction [Hemlis](https://heml.is/) is taking.
This is great and all, but I'd love to see a community wiki / discussion area for AWS tips, tricks, and gotchas. Something like Quora crossed with Wikipedia, just for AWS.

Is anyone aware of such a thing? If not, any advice for starting one?
the change of you having your car keys and your car in your backpack at the same time is much, much lower.
It does but most of the implementations I have tried (Including multiple PAID ones in the app store) don't work well at all. I would settle for locking when I walk away then tap to unlock when I get back.
so you're saying half of the US population are not US citizens based on your experience? Sure. Right.
A person's capacity for learning complex concepts quickly matters more than their current body of knowledge. Startups are marathons, not sprints.

If Feynman were still alive and wanted to work as a programmer at your startup, it'd be foolish to turn him away. This was a guy who went from "zero knowledge of how a space shuttle works" to "knows the design of the Challenger shuttle in detail, and is able to spot overlooked problems" within a couple weeks. So he'd certainly have no trouble reaching rockstar programmer status at your startup within a couple months.

But I'm getting the feeling most startups would turn him down if he wasn't already a rockstar programmer the day his interview rolls around. That seems a little nutty.
Agreed, ritual and superstition are not the same. But both are similar in nature that one cannot rationally question the set of steps that are followed (as in ritual) or the belief (superstition). Most of the times they are supposed to be accepted as given/prescribed. Any challenge to them and deviation from them is not well tolerated. Also the
probable rationale attached to them might have been have been relevant during a distant past and might be no longer relevant in present day.
>rolled up skinny jeans

>hipster beard

>authentic, vintage old storage space

>edgy minimalism

I am not buying it.
Or that Apple hasn't built it into iOS and OS X by now.
Pretty darn cool Log analyser / visualiser for JIT compilation
From their homepage:

Get Noticed -> Get Funded -> Grow Faster

That's not how it works.
If your page scrolls, you should have a scroll bar.
Looks to like it died because they spent too much by being in the Bay Area. Seriously... they're spending ~$1k/employee/month for office space in a "co-working venue" in SF.
Yes I am complaining about the £280m send to India. There are a lot of other causes closer to home that would benefit greatly from it.
Well written and thought out post, I hope you get to sit down with the right people at Google tomorrow Will.

Best of luck with Live Ninja, as an early beta user of hangouts and someone who had never seen Live Ninja before this AM I have to say i am truly impressed with what you guys have built at Live Ninja
Here's my perspective as an avid, sometimes published photographer...I never used Everpix but my perception is that it solved a very real problem but unfortunately, it is a problem that most people don't realize they have.

For starters, most people already use something like Facebook, in which they've selected the best or most interesting of their photos to share to the adoration of their social network. When these users wonder if they've done enough with their photo collection, they just have to look through FB and remember that yes, they did put up a few photos and people liked and commented them, end of further discussion.

Of course, these users may have thousands of other photos that they just never got to...but that might not matter for most people...they've already gotten some satisfaction from sharing.

Of course there are shutterbugs who do feel a yearning to go through their photos and see them all again...but are there enough to support a paid service? Hard to say, especially with the many other photo services out there.

From my perspective, I have a pro Flickr account where I have nearly 10,000 photos...which represents less than 5 percent of the photos I've taken in the last few years. However, a service like Everpix is not appealing enough to me...because the barrier to me is not that I can't easily access old photos, but that I've realized that editing and sorting photos is the long part of the work...and unless Everpix mitigates that part better than Lightroom and a bunch of external HDs, I don't think id be compelled to try it out.

And so for now, Flickr is good enough...I mostly use Flickr because it's an easy way for people to find me. I imagine 500px likewise finds its success less as a storage service and more of a place to shareable nod be seen. A lot of the testimonials I've seen of Everpix was its value to people and their own photos...which, while is a very valuable thing to serve, it is ultimately the sharing of these photos that makes people want to join a service in the first place
A secure environment would require a vetted browser and no other hostile extensions. That's certainly possible, so Scramble does have a use.
Surely all that takes is a "last updated x hours ago" label and you have the best if both worlds?

Just because the current designs have flaws for your use cases doesn't mean we can never design around them.
Thanks! We're working on improving the UI. A few upcoming fixes:

* Clear visual distinction between encrypted and unencrypted mail
* Keep track of read vs unread mail
* Allow users to enter a public key for an external (non-Scramble address) and sent encrypted mail to existing PGP users
* Basic search
Excellent. I don't mean to put you on the spot. :) But I did figure this was an opportunity to ping Rackspace again in case you might be interested in running our test suite on your virtual servers.

The i7 hardware we test on is just our workstations, which are possibly similar to your Performance 1 8GB, but you would probably be able to map it more accurately. Specifically, they are Sandy Bridge i7-2600Ks with 8GB of memory.
That's right. AWS infrastructures costs were already being covered by subscription income. We also had prototypes ready to flesh out to reduce per-user costs as we scale up, but were not at that point yet.
Thanks so much! That really means a lot.
I'm surprised Google didn't aqui-hire these folks and turn LiveNinja into Google Helpouts.
I didn't even get any views of the video :(
Is it because the more people jump on the more valuable it becomes and I just sell my stock and I've just made a whole bunch of money?
On Windows I put mine behind nginx. I don't remember anything particularly difficult about it.
Now that's a massive dealbreaker. That should be made more obvious.
Yes, your version is correct. For example using bitwise or comparison operators with parameters would break OPs CHECK.
>> They haven't sent out the notifications to members yet, it seems.

I just had an email pop into my inbox. Sad, indeed; I really enjoyed using it and paid money to help ensure they stuck around. I guess not enough folk felt the way I did. :-(
Have purchased but cannot do anything, iPhone is waiting for Macbook and Macbook is waiting for iPhone, cycling bluetooth doesn't help (iPhone 5 and Macbook Air 2012)

hmmm
I dropped the $3.99 on the iOS app only to find that the Mac app wasn't compatible with my computer.

Looks cool, but I was pretty disappointed that I paid money and it didn't work with no warning.
Usually, when people claim to have refuted our crappy old article on Javascript crypto, they have some misguided but at least potentially falsifiable argument for having accomplished that; for instance, "there are browsers with secure RNGs now".

You don't even have that. From what I can tell, you have literally no argument at all; instead, you "agree" with the article while drawing exactly the opposite conclusion that the article draws, then point out again and again how much users don't want to install things, as if that changed the security of this system at all.
That looks terribly inconvenient. Especially the part with me deliberately knocking on my rather expensive smartphone.
truffle.io ?
Yeah but the Amiga drove 640x256 at 16 colors (4 bits), so around 80kb. Contrast that with the newest iPhone which drives 640x1136 at 24-bit color, so around 2.08mb. This is 26x the number of pixels. Keep in mind you also have a networking stack and lots of semi-realtime sensor data.

Not to mention that the demands on the system in terms of features and performance are so much higher.
Compare Evernote with Google Keep. The latter, which came out later, converted me to use the former. You have nothing to worry about. A big company sucks at copying ideas. An innovative big company gives incentives to defensive maneuvers like this, but never sees them through to an offensive maneuver unless there's billions at immediate risk. If anything, Google is doing you a favor by shining the spotlight on a mediocre solution. All you need now is the product to tap into that dissatisfied channel. They just validated the significance of your market for you. Good luck!
For the brewery its the same benefits as gift cards: Not everyone that receives one will actually use the money. On top of that, free advertising.
That is just step #1.

Waiting for quality for release is always a mistake.

Release, refine and re-release. And A/B test, run the funnels and measure change as it happens.

Productivity on day #1 with bad code is a technical debt you take up - it will catch up to you if you ignore it for too long.

The day your app goes viral is not the day you want to learn about db sharding and data-architectures.

You'll want to grab all the users and keep them instead of 503'ing.

But if you do get past that phase, you can hire people like me to redo things and replace the bubblegum/fishing-line architecture with something more robust :)
Here’s how The Post covered (...) the Internet in 1988
But having a car stolen is way less of a problem than all your personal data being stolen. If my car is stolen because someone stole my bag with the keys in it then all I lose is my insured car.

If my laptop is stolen with the 'keys' to the laptop also in the bag, my life could become very difficult very quickly taking me years to recover from.

I think the point is you don't want to have the same paradigm as car + keys when it comes to your private information.
activating screensaver via alfred will do it, as will a hot corner set to start screensaver.
>> I want to make it as easy as possible for users to try out and adopt. Just testing it out? No installation required.

Why not offer an option to try it out in the browser(with same GUI), and if they want security tell them to install it(and verify)? It would be just a bit harder than installing the extension.

BTW:there's another use case for extension based encryption: As the backbone for private messaging for various sites(which requires integration with the browser) , for example reddit.

private messages in reddit are :

(a)viewable to sniffers due to http usage

(b)can be viewed by reddit staff

(c)can be viewed by dragnet and targeted surveillance

An extension would definetly reduce attack scenarios, and has a good viral marketing vector. In fact implement the right way i could see it being a very reliable way to making something like this popular.
A Critique of Lavabit
That's the real question. If you've auto-login turned on, then your password is stored in a very insecure way. Anyone could remove the drive and get access: http://encase-forensic-blog.guidancesoftware.com/2013/07/exa...

If you turn on drive encryption and then add a "bios" password in the firmware to prevent recovery, that's about as protected as things get on Mac.

Which means until your hard drive is decrypted it's still protected and this app won't work.

In my case, this app won't work even when the computer goes to sleep. Why? I've set mine to re-encrypt on sleep, so it prompts me for the password -- to unencrypt -- every time.

I'm not adding this until Apple can use this as a second factor for the encryption -- or as a way to select a profile and load user data from the phone.
That video is so fucking pretentious I could puke into my mouth out of disgust.
I am using a number of high-performance instances - cc2.8xlarge machines for EMR jobs, and cr1.8xlarge machines for analytics databases. From my testing:

- Running EMR jobs on cc2.8xlarge machines as spot instances is a great way to get a LOT of computer power very cheaply. Because our jobs are periodic we run both Core and Task as spots and simply retry the job if our machines get terminated. I did a lot of benchmarking and found that a small number of cc2.8xlarge machines out-performs and is cheaper than a large number of lesser instances (and I tried most of the lesser machines). In us-west-2 it's very uncommon to lose our instances, unlike us-east-1 which has major price fluctuations (this is true for all types of spot instance).

- The cr1.8xlarge has fantastic performance, relative to the rest of the AWS machines. It's also very expensive compared to the cost of hardware or a similar solution on another cloud provider. Since we're fully integrated with AWS and don't want to run our own hardware we're sucking up the cost for now, but it's definitely a sore-point in our budget. The cr1.8xlarge is also all-round a better machine than the hi.4xlarge, which has a lot of disk but is pitiful in terms of CPU.
With TortoiseHG, ssh does work well out of the box on Windows. I only know the webserver routes, but I don't see the problem with that. We use nginx on a Windows server and host our repositories there, it's not too hard to set up. With no knowledge of the process, it might take an hour or two to set up.

I'm not familiar with setting up a git server, but i doubt it is any easier than mercurial.
Why? Why should they open source it, followed by, how do you propose the developers make money on it?
I'm not a SV resident, nor a startup kind of guy, but one thing I've noticed is that VC firms are hit driven. And when there are periods in time when hits are far apart, you end up with events like the Series-A crunch.

I'm wondering if there could be a VC firm that would emphasize a low cost of business (for them) in return for not so many hits, but rather a series of smaller firms that just get on base. They'd build a pool of talent, and one or more of the firms might hit it big (aka got lucky), but the VC would be more about spreading their bets, and having a strong base to generate recurring income. And with a possibility of synergy between the various firms under management. So -- more dividend oriented than IPO oriented.
One of the functions of the prior in Bayesian analysis is to incorporate this "gut feel" into your calculations. Given that you have a strong prior belief and weak data (ie not much data) your belief will strongly influence the posterior. As you collect more data your belief will be increasingly overridden by the reality.
I can't help but wonder if that safety net feeling is part of what doomed Everpix. If they had believed they were incredibly lucky to land $1.8M and that they had to build the whole business with that (rather than having a belief that more funding awaited whenever they needed it), would it have forced a different set of decisions to be made that would have driven revenue and growth, and ultimately success, instead?
That's the opposite of what I got from the context, sorry. In fact criley2 defined capitalism as a system of capital ownership. Anyway, criley2 seems to be calling all greedy people "capitalists", and using this definition to argue that other economic systems produce less corruption. That argument gets even less coherent, if you're claiming that guarding your capital is somehow more selfish than guarding your labor.
When trying to transfer an ISO to a USB stick, I find

dd if=<file> of=<device> bs=4M; sync

as per Debian wiki [1] works for me with Debian isos and recently a CentOS live CD image when installing on another laptop. Oddly enough, USB sticks prepared using unetbootin fail with Debian ISOs (boots but continually complains about not being able to find CD-ROM) but also works with CentOS based ISOs.

[1] http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb
More apps and devices seem to be using wireless proximity as some kind of authenticator, along with the assumption that a specific received signal strength confirms the user's intent to perform some action. However, such systems seem to be quite prone to a simple attack consisting of a battery-powered bidirectional amplifier connected a pair of highly directional antennas. Simply point one antenna toward the user's phone and the other antenna toward the user's computer, and you can fool the computer into thinking the user's phone is closer than it really is.
I spent a few years developing tooling and processes around Mercurial, then moved to a new role some months ago where Git is used exclusively. I am afraid that I still prefer hg; while git is, as a rule of thumb, faster, hg takes better care of your data (Much harder to lose changesets) and presents a cleaner UI out of the gate.
It's not a great product but a great idea. A great product is one people will either pay for or investors invest in with the assumption is will be more valuable in the future. There is a difference. Sometimes the people with the idea can't figure out the leap to a great product and it fails. I've been there.
Maybe I missed something but it sounds like a rant from a company that wishes they were bought but weren't.

There doesn't seem to be any insight into how google is 'doing it wrong' other than a kind of 'they don't have the experience like us'.
$40k? Seems steep.
Agreed. Getting a daily Everpix Flashback email was the reason I chose to subscribe to Everpix.
Symantec pushes back on Certificate Transparency proposal from Google
You can get your money refunded by contacting Apple. http://www.labnol.org/software/itunes-app-store-refunds/
Just got it. Thanks for your part in creating a product I loved. Best luck in your future endeavors.
>Perhaps mostly through just enormous computational horsepower, but it is a non-complaint.

You just proved my point. They are not fixing anything, just adding work around after work around and one of them is throwing more horse power at it. The inherent problem is still there, they just keep covering it up.
This is great... I love the 5 tips for how to get the right insight from potential customers.
Facebook uses mercurial internally.
Sure, that's a best-case scenario. How about no WiFi in the vicinity and a couple of accidental knocks on the phone?
It is not like gnome is adding any new functionality on the latest ones.

I need a rather unusual setup for work. I use focus-follow-mouse. But clicks do not raise windows unless i'm also holding the move window modifier (flag key).

I was unable to do that simple setting with gnome3 for years and always reverted back to XFCE or gnome2.

But now, since a couple months ago, with the effort from the community redoing their work via the extension gnome site, i can finally have that setup on gnome 3. even on the "old" versions that debian uses (i run untainted debian7). So i completely fail to see your point. Even more so as latest gnomes broke some extensions, screwing the community over yet again. Had debian be on the bleeding edge i'd probably be waiting for some extensions to be ported yet again.

gnome is a project that teaches that upgrading blindly is dumb.