skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, I'm not a big fan of linking directly to PR put out by self-interested parties. It's very hard for the average reader to de-spin the propaganda put out in these missives. They're being manipulated and don't know it. I'd much prefer a link to a well written analysis of events from an unbiased industry expert.
The Dropbox SDK is MUCH better and more mature than the Box SDK. Dropbox bases its interactions on the paths of files/folders while Box bases it on the unique ID of the item. Converting a path to an ID in box is a very expensive operation that requires you to recursively list the root and then each ancestor folder up to the item.

As another example, the Box authentication view controller on iOS has no real support for a cancel button. The web page displayed by it includes it's own faux toolbar at the top, which interferes visually with providing your own.
It is far worse than the Surface Pro, not even in the same league, but hardly anyone uses a Surface Pro.
If I understand your question correctly, you probably want to create an SSH config file. See the man page for the gory details: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

The config file format is slightly obtuse starting out, but with it you can create nicknames for machines, automate logging in, using different keys, etc. It's very powerful. I've gotten to the point where all I normally do at the CLI is `ssh staging` or `ssh dev` and I'll get to the right machine.
This is a hoax. A bit more thought before pressing submit, please..
"...Even when they're offline!"

I was expecting some arcane optical-modem procedure where you point the receiving phone's camera at the sender's screen, which flashes a series of glyphs or something like a high-bandwidth QR code. That would've been cool. Instead it turns out that "even when they're offline" just means "we were lying about that part." Oh well.
Fasetto - Sharing files instantly anywhere online or offline
Apple can actually screw Samsung, get them banned(android and open source will hate it for sure) and release a special edition nickel finished iPhone.
Can you share your debugging journal? I have been thinking about keeping one, just to try see if there are patterns amongst the bugs I inadvertently write. There are indeed patterns and classes and categories of bugs, and I think that knowing them might prevent me from making the same (stupid) mistakes in the future.
We addressed this as soon as it was brought to our attention and is no longer a vulnerability. :)
India, China sign MoU to introduce Mandarin in Indian schools
Two more senate hearings on Virtual Currencies today
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/ for the current discussion, another one at 9pm ET tonight.
"Capacitve screens are so great, you don't need a stylus anymore"

Sigh.
As the global experience shows, it won't happen without government regulation forcing it - the current system has a strong financial motivation to keep it slow and expensive forever, but other than that there aren't any serious obstacles.
My mother bought an LG flatscreen, but I had to show her how to use it. A gyroscopic remote? Ads in her TV menu? Using the system was painful even for me and I fully expect that the software will not be updated two years from now. I guess the manufacturers feel they have to be able to point to something unique or different, even if it doesn't actually provide any value (like "Collectors Edition cereal boxes") and that idea gets in the way of focusing on core strengths/"less-is-more".

(I bought her a Roku 3 but it was returned due to hardware errors so she's been using the TV system since)
I was also wondering if - at a future point where bitcoin adoption is more wide spread - could not the entire supply chain be "paid" in a matter of milliseconds? Allowing the prices to fluctuate quite naturally. Should not that be especially less of a problem when one bitcoin might be worth as much as, say, an entire city's internet infrastructure (and thus not even up for speculation anymore) and price fluctuations occur in the range of satoshis? The deflationary nature of the currency, turning private individuals into mini-banks, turning greed on to saving and thus optimizing investments and falling prices for economic value creation - aren't those attractive possibilities for a "bitcoin" dominated global economy?
I've still had absolutely no issues with my running droplets, though space is getting very tight in AMS1 at times when creating new ones. Their support is excellent even if you have a very specific question about their network, there's none of the fluffing around I've seen with other providers. It's cost effective even for my non-existent budget. Put simply, I'm pleased as punch.

I'm not usually vocally supportive of companies, but they're doing quite a good job: this article is a little undeserved.
The Silicon Roundabout Lean Start-Up Ninja - Part I
This is part I of a series of posts about the journey of one London UK start-ups (jClarity - a Java/JVM performance analysis company) and its 18 month journey to date!
Could someone who has used both DigitalOcean and RamNode say how they compare?
This article is misleading in its description of the technology and its use of phrases such as "...their lack of cell, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC connections." They seem to confound lack of wide-area connections with a lack of local-area connections. It appears the authors simply have a protocol they have devised agnostic of a specific transport layer, and they are writing interfaces to every transport layer possible on the top three mobile platforms.

I highly advise anyone interested in this to instead read the information on the Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fasetto/fasetto-sharing-...
I wouldn't say it's not on our radar. ;)
Wikimedia Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Paid Advocacy Editing Firm Wiki-PR
Right, we're not changing the complexity itself, N-ary parallelization in the ideal case modifies the runtime s.t. C' = C_0 / N.
Yes, there "are" companies where the CxOs are out on the floor like everybody else, but I've only seen it once and that was when we were ~5ppl doing an officeshare.
Your BMW example is not even close to 15 years. Care to explain?
...plus now the enterprise needs to hire more expensive sysadmins to babysit all of it. That's exactly what enterprises are wanting to avoid.

Our sysadmin left after he deployed LXC "goodness" to make things "better" and we are still in a recovery mode from this.
Sorry Database Nerds, Nobody Actually Gives a Shit
Creating a Lisp with (just) Seven Forms (by Michael Fogus)
Dylan released the official music video of the song on November 19, 2013. The video is interactive, allowing viewers to use their keyboards or cursors to flip through 16 channels that mimic TV formats such as games shows, shopping networks and reality series. People on each channel, no matter what TV trope they represent, are seen lip-syncing the lyrics. The video's director Vania Heymann stated, "I'm using the medium of television to look back right at us — you're flipping yourself to death with switching channels [in real life]."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_Rolling_Stone#Music_vide...
That's fair, but I just don't see why anyone would allow a "vow" to have any hold on them in extreme situations unless they felt some cosmic thing were being violated. There is certainly no legal or even significant social pressure to stay with a spouse at any cost, so what significance does breaking the "vow" hold? Not being true to oneself? Then you're sort of your own god, willing to punish yourself for something everyone else is readily willing to forgive you for.

I can't imagine someone making a personal vow to pay back their mortgage at any cost, when they're legally allowed to walk away. Even if it meant the total destruction of their future.
Interesting. Only 2 photosynthetic molecules are known so far in all branches of life, chlorophyll and rhodopsin, so the existence of another photosynthetic pathway is pretty surprising! I hope it's not another case of hype followed by debunking like for "arsenic dna" or "antideluvian dna".

The study seems to be done properly though, and hints at a possible mechanism, so maybe. I'd need a couple follow up studies of the mechanism to be convinced!
I find it amazing that programming language regress is considered a progress.
I just started it this afternoon but do intend to share it once it fills up a bit. I'll update the post when I do this.
We're going to be making an announcement about AMS late this week / early next.
you'd be crazy to buy hosting anonymously - especially if your government protects its people from bad ideas

you'd be crazy to buy weapons anonymously - especially if your government protects its people from harm by keeping them unarmed

you'd be crazy to trust mathematics more than governments because governments never lie, whereas numbers are made up all the time
The IPO of You and Me: How Normal People Are Becoming Corporations
Fake. There probably aren't even a billion dollars worth of nickels in circulation.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2012/aug/29/apple...
Completely awesome. I was curious so I looked up the eBee price. $12,000 - too steep for a hobbyist, but I'm sure that price will come down over time as drones become more widespread.
That means the rate of inflation of bitcoins will slow down, thereby causing a spike in the value of existing bitcoins.
I think it definitely has potential. Throw it up on Github, and let people submit pull requests. Don't feel like you need to spend more of your time fixing the examples.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/06/samsung-did-not-try-t...

Nickels may be legal tender in the U.S., but no company is obliged to accept them as payment for a debt of any size, never mind one as large as Samsung's.
Besides, as Ken Tindell helpfully tweeted when the story first appeared on the Web, 20 billion nickels at 5 grams each would fill 2,755 18-wheel trucks (maximum legal weight: 80,000 lbs.).
I was really bummed when I read that one of these costs about 12k. But then I realized how much money you could make taking this around the country, mapping out cities and licensing the images out. Heck, just taking private gigs for colleges, estates, parks, and things of that sort could make you good money. I think i found a new side business.
So HN can be more like every other internet forum since Usenet in 1985 and angry repressed basement dwellers can unleash their fury anonymously to make up for the fact that they can barely look other human beings in the face?

Plenty of places to do that on the internet, I'm happy for one place enforce a higher standard.
By Amdahl's law, that idealisation assumes that your program is totally parallelisable. Very few real world applications actually are. Out of interest, was yours? (Or at least very close to it?)
But then the box never gets fixed.
I'll just leave this here:

CLIFMO: CLI's First, Maybe Only

life will be better. trust me. it's a beautiful thing.

(Also a big fan of RDD or README Driven Development. I didn't coin that term but I was doing it long before I finally heard somebody coin it. RDD and CLIFMO FTW. I have only a love/hate relationship for TDD, in comparison -- it's a mixed bag, advantages and disadvantages, awesome and terrible, depending -- but only pure love for RDD and CLIFMO.)
Hence the debate about whether or not Apple or Microsoft will allow this into their app stores. Interestingly enough, this uncertainty is not mentioned in the Risks section of their Kickstarter page. They're promising software that could very likely never be allowed to be used by the majority of the people funding it.
Treat DigitalOcean as any other provider - something you can't trust, so always have backups of your own data in a place you trust (not a DigitalOcean snapshot) so you can restore when needed.

Personally I use Ansible http://www.ansibleworks.com/ and rdiff-backup http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/, along with Vagrant http://www.vagrantup.com/ for testing. So the day something happens with my droplet on DigitalOcean - I'll just run Ansible on a fresh server and restore the remaining data with rdiff-backup.

Yes, the lack of IPv6, being unable to use a virtual machines bootloader, a lack of a decent rescue image, and no private networking apart from one location sucks. However for the price - it's a good deal.
I think this is probably the most difficult situation as it's extremely hard to predict if the stock will become liquid.

At this point one should be looking either at solid financials or a twitter like ability to command a great valuation.

I think Square and Dropbox both have solid rev models and valuations, my guess is that both would experience a liquidity event in the next 5 years.
I'm not sure how I'm going to convince you that Google's business model revolves around monetization of search results and showing ads.

But if I did, you'd see that any search query to Google is nothing more than a potential ad space.

For your search query examples, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
volunteers with army of drones can can cover cities, there can be a kickstarter for each city funded by its resident. I will fund for chennai and bangalore for sure
Been using them for a few weeks now for a private Minecraft server (<= 6 people, whitelisted). Additionally it serves a statically generated map over nginx and I've been trying to get OpenVPN to work. It's a $10 one, 1 gig of RAM in Amsterdam.

Generally I'm quite happy so far. The setup process and the management panel is awesome while the CPU performance is lacking a bit. I/O performance (both disk and network) is great.
The article states they they have to be powered up, so airplane mode is still a no-go.
China's Tencent will offer 10TB of free cloud storage to attract US users
The font on that site is what really sucks... :-)
This comment is a very ineffective way to disprove anu_gupta's point. :)
AES-GCM is quite nice. It's a "modern" construction that both runs AES in a stream cipher mode and integrates it tightly with a fast message authentication code. The "GCM" in "AES-GCM" mostly alludes to GHASH, the MAC function, which is a fast polynomial universal hashing MAC, in roughly the same family as Daniel Bernstein's Poly1305.

What's especially nice about AES-GCM is that the "mode" itself takes care of guaranteeing both message confidentiality and integrity. The TLS working group does not need to do much joinery and decisionmaking to make GCM work; the mode itself is standardized to provide those capabilities. The less you ask of the TLS working group, the more you put on the fundamental crypto, the better off you are.

(As it happens, the very little decisionmaking latitude the TLS WG actually had for AES-GCM resulted in a weakness! Though not an especially meaningful one.)

Facebook also has a good security team. Google has the advantage/beneficence of running an important browser project that is itself committed to moving the ball forward on TLS, which is an advantage Facebook lacks.
ViEmu is faster than VsVim. VsVim will cause some small amount of input lag, depending on what you're doing.

ViEmu also has a more complete emulation. I prefer ViEmu, and own a license for it. Easily worth the price.
Doing the Kenosha Kid
JS is like a common cold - annoying, commonplace and still not cured. I mean some diseases are worth than cold, so JS is not so bad.
Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics
Ok, definitely out harshed the GP. :-)

I'm surprised the AdaFruit folks haven't yet created a Pi bundle like this, there closest [1] is more HW oriented. The kickstarter is pitched more toward the software development than the 'maker' development (aka controlled LEDs and stuff).

[1] http://www.adafruit.com/products/1014
Filip - wearable smart locator and phone for kids - launch Nov 22
Gilliam - a platform for micro service architectures
A hubot script to create appear.in chat rooms and link to them
The name made me remember Space: 1999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kano
WiFi works in Airplane mode on iOS.
> i dont really understand why these things are considered impressive. all of the technically challenging bits are handled by the enormous stack of technology involved.

For one thing, it's a reminder of how awesome the technology stack that we all take for granted is.
Authentication.

Here's a hash of your post plus some salty stuff that only I know about, or at least thats what you think:

96ac1d2c0cdbc05e1ff1e40fe8a43f64e013e232

(its actually a SHA1 of GNU date output, but whatever)

Now lets say your post starts appearing on reddit except it begins "I am like so totally getting the point here" and includes the hash 96ac1d2c0cdbc05e1ff1e40fe8a43f64e013e232

I can act as oracle and verify that someone messed with the post I signed.

Sometimes having a little notary follow you around notarizing everything you type is no big deal. Sometimes of course it is.

The irony is that this whole debate relies on the theory that no one can generate those salty hashes but the almighty GOOG. I only glanced at the code in the post and I didn't see any charset translation games in his little permutation gadget. It might be something totally innocent like he needs to convert to UTF-8 or UCS-16 or UTF-32 or some bonkers thing like EBCDIC before the hash and that's it. In which case its not much of a big deal, mostly.

Assuming honest and truthful actors on both sides, there's not much harm an oracle can do other than verifying an out of context quote, I guess. Of course honest and truthful actors are not universal, and the oracle itself might be a crook or partially crook partially honest.

The worst case is a partially crooked or partially secret oracle. "I VLM solemnly swear I shot JFK back in 1963" (and heres a correct hash using the GOOG algorithm of the statement). Well, superficially that proves I shot JFK, I mean a 3rd party properly notarized it and everything. The reality is all it proves is someone in the universe knows the signing algorithm and this is a properly signed message using that algorithm, which is not so impressive. The legal outcome can be a lot different between the superficial interpretation and reality. Even though JFK died more than a decade before I was born. If someone, like, say, a court, is dumb enough to trust the sig, then anyone who knows the algorithm is God over everyone else. Hope the smart guys aren't the bad guys...
The claim is that they are breaking out into kernel mode from the userland sandbox? Seems very implausible.
I know that Android at least has a specific API and permission for direct peer-to-peer WiFi connections with other devices.
Hollywood and Los Angeles Time-Lapse
Sit back and relax while watching this long (4 min) time-lapse made in Los Angeles from above the Hollywood Sign and other interesting locations.
Yes, our algorithm performed an O(N^2) loop over the graph vertices so B for us was very close to 1.
I'm currently using Ubiquity SSD Cloud Servers and I'm happy with them, but still find it weird that its not that popular. Anyone else using them? Any difference between them and DO?
I was going by this:

"The eBee has a flight time of up to 45 minutes allowing to cover areas of up to 10sqkm in a single flight."
-- http://www.sensefly.com/drones/ebee.html
Still cant see apple approving that. I also don't think sandboxed and non jail broken apps can modify hardware power states.
If only we didn't have to rely on nonfree software for the processing.
Yes, I am sure the source really said that : "Inside Google, it's a Game of Thrones." /s

btw, the article tries to frame the issue as bad but if there are no sexual harassment suits, who cares? Google employees are smart enough to figure it out I suppose.
No experience with DO, but RamNode is very good. I've been a customer for over a year, and I rarely had any downtime. Disk speed is between 300MB and over 1GB (on SSD), network speed can go over 70MB/s.
I am somewhat skeptical of this hypothesis. The market may be less saturated, but AFAIK also more competitive. A cupcake aficionado may read ten blogs on the topic, and Google can send lots of super-niche long-tail traffic if you rack up enough posts — but it's unlikely that many people will buy more than one or two fertility calculators in their lifetime, and they'll most likely just buy the first one they see that looks OK.
which gold standard recession was greater in impact than the great depression?

> Bank runs, panics...have been virtually eliminated by the introduction of fiat currency.

How many financial institutions failed in 2007 - 2008? How much panic selling happened? I don't call that virtually eliminated.
JPMorgan and Uncle Sam Now Partners in Pillaging of America
If one of your phones has tethering enabled, you can turn on the hotspot and have the other phone connect to it. This should work even if there's no cell phone reception. Is that easy?
Oh, could you please talk to them and tell them that full-screen XAML and HTML5/JS are both not good fit for enterprise LOB apps? Please!
Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets
Bionic Eye Implant will Become Available in U.S. in Coming Weeks
> That risk paid off, but there are countless examples that didn't

If every risk paid off, there's no such thing as a risk. These investors are making the calculation that DB has some % chance of being in a similarly dominant position as Amazon is today.
I thought the whole article was pretty interesting, but I responded to that part exactly the way you did.

One of the big things I retained from my stats classes is the idea that, once you deviate from a pre-specified analysis technique, the strength of your conclusion is strongly diminished. Also, sophisticated statistical techniques are often less robust than simple ones. Maybe some other ideas apply that I can't think of off the top of my head.

On the other hand, the author may not have appreciated the statistical iffyness of that phrasing, and perhaps misrepresented the rigor of the actual analysis.
...which is something to start considering. Maybe not your paycheck right away, but small amounts of money, you know, the type of "savings" that women in China pour into bitcoin these days. Coming from a culture with a very strong "savings" ethic, there is a certain "pull" exacted by bitcoin. It's also fascinating to study some deflationary models which until recently I was convinced (like everyone else) could never work, well, I am not so sure anymore whether they would not lead to an improved economic system:

http://mises.org/document/3726/
I've used something similar at the moment, basically putting in /etc/hosts entries to map a fake DNS name on my laptop e.g. "staging" to the real switch ip address, so the command "ssh staging" works.

It works well for the common devices I access, however it's not really scalable enough. There are easily over 1,000 unique CLI interfaces that we support, and call me lazy but jumping in and out of spreadsheets constantly to find the IP/Port and credentials isn't something I enjoy.

Window's with PuTTY/SecureCRT can solve some of the issues using saved sessions that you can export and import.

However I would love something in CLI on OSX where you could type 'mgr'

Then you get a prompt like, '1) switches, 2)firewalls, 3)servers, 4)routers'.

After you hit '2' you get another prompt '1) London, 2) New York, 3) Lab' and so on...

Finally when you select the device it opens either telnet/ssh (depending on the device) and may be even authenticates you in, all with terminal.

Like I said it's a wish list, and I guess I will have to end up making something my self, but no point in re-inventing the wheel if there's already someone out there with a solution :)
For large photo transfers I've convinced my family members to use BitTorrent Sync.

Dropbox's use case might fit corporate use-case, but on the consumer side you rarely need XXX GB of high-availability storage for entire year - you need it for a short period of time, and it kinda stays unused most of the other time.