skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not angry, just trying to drive a point home using colorful language.

1. Yes, I have that.
2. Yes, I also have that.

3. Here's an actual screenshot of my google webmaster tools for my website:

http://i.imgur.com/9Nwgts1.png

Remember: We're now closing in on 6 months with Google just not crawling my site whereas other search engines crawl near daily.
> I'll get search results, with the result buried somewhere in 1 of a 100 different emails in the conversation and as far as I know there's no easy way to sort through that pile.

Expand the conversation and use the built-in browser search.
I use Neutron Drive for some simple web sites that I have hosted in Google Drive. It gives me the ability to edit HTML, CSS, & JavaScript directly in the browser.

Previously I would have to download a copy of the file from Google Drive, edit it locally, and then upload the new version since Google Drive doesn't support editing these file types.
Has anyone noticed that they give you gigantic bags for free? Our office (LA not SF) orders fresh all the time for basic food and they always give us enormous re-usable bags.

I'm trying to figure out, are they doing this on purpose (paper bags would be cheaper)? I'm assuming they are, hoping that you'll go shopping and use their cool bags and using this as a method of free advertising.
"Unless of course you're a sociopath who doesn't actually care about the well being of anyone other than yourself" IMO is at the top of the list of what's wrong. People don't have time to stop to think about why these people got themselves there. They are too busy trying to make their bosses/investors happy so they don't end up on the street, as well (I am in the same boat). I don't think we are all that far from a situation they are in. One accident could cause you to become disable and no longer able to work. Then when you ask someone for help they look at you like scum because you don't have clean clothes or a place to live. Some have the support that will help them to never be in this situation. Support is the key.
Sure you can. You can get a TIN instead. Non-citizens shouldn't be able to get a SS number.
The title might be a bit misleading... from the videos, it doesn't look like there's any "swiping" of the device (unless by "swipe", you mean "steal", in which case I stand corrected). I wouldn't be surprised to see that they're all bluetooth-enabled cars, I believe there are some known exploits in that area.
What's wrong with Google's search results? If I search for any of these terms, I get plenty of relevant results.

The article is just idiotic in its accusations. Google wants to provide the best search experience for customers. If it makes a mistake, it hurts Google, so I'd imagine they sorta try to keep their results as good as possible. Complaining that you moved in indexes seems sorta pointless. Google's algorithms, at the moment, think other sites are a better match. Maybe she unknowingly engaged in some blacklistable offense.

It's like complaining that some hotel concierge stopped referring people to your restaurant.
Amen. Gmail has _lost_ features over the years, as opposed to gain any.
Engineering Notes On Cleo
Does SecondMarket still let you buy securities of private companies?
Again, apologies for the imprecision. But you'd agree that it has been delisted for search terms it used to do well for?

Additionally, far less than <1% of the people who use Google get past the second page of results. Getting your ranking penalized by twenty spots is a death sentence.
You are right. I chose my words poorly. This is what I get for trying to make a complex point in a quick post between meetings.
A large amount of our homeless are mentally ill and live on the street by choice. There are shelters in most places, and the 'smart' homeless people hitchhike somewhere warm. It's a much easier time being homeless in California than it is in Minnesota.
Well, I've always wanted a banana phone.
I appreciate you taking the time to reply in these threads.

I won't needle you with follow-up questions, but for the record, I think there's more than a little cognitive dissonance here regarding customers and conflicting goals.

This is why people who spend time thinking seriously about the issue are concerned about Ghostery, but I accept that "trust" doesn't pay the bills.
What do you need to implement a website background like that? I want to work something like it for my website, minus the hairy arms :).
True, usually only the federal government can support such projects because they print their money whenever it is needed.

Tax incentives only go so far because the cost of having jobs local go beyond just those taxes. Payroll and its associated taxes can be expensive. Those tax incentives would have to somehow offset those costs as well.
Yes if you want it you can. Then again you can also enforce change tracking by policy.

Regarding SkyDrive, you're talking rubbish. It's been there for literally years.

Right click a document in skydrive and select "Version history". You can review every version, restore earlier versions and open the changes up in Word if you have it installed and review there.

If you go "big" and use O365 you can review and accept, annotate all changes and commit to sharepoint for example from your desktop app.

You can even wire it into review workflows so that commits are staged and reviewed by an editor, people are notified etc. This is great for legal documents, contracts etc.

Google Docs doesn't get a look in.
Ask HN: What do I ask a start-up before getting hired?
Given that I believe in the business model of the start-up, what sorts of questions should I be asking the CTO at my informational interview, given that there are only 7 employees so far? I'd be the 4th Engineer.

Background
So I am in serious talks with a start-up. This would be my first real start-up that I worked for. I was looking through the following article:
http://www.stefankendall.com/2013/11/10-questions-to-ask-your-potential.html
For some ideas to ask at my interview with the CTO, but it hardly seems relevant.
You're right, today there are many systems which cannot run docker. There are several things we are doing to remediate that. Obviously there are no miracles, if you run a kernel which doesn't support namespacing, you won't get namespacing :) However:

* We can make the "docker in a vm" option much better. In another thread I mentioned boot2docker (http://github.com/steeve/boot2docker) which is the smallest possible VM to run docker - currently 25MB. Of course there is a performance tradeoff but for, say, a developer's mac or a server which is underutilized anyway, it may be exactly what you need.

* We are adding swappable execution drivers to docker, so that you can replace lxc (the current default) with openvz, or gracefully degrade to a simple chroot. Also a tradeoff - obviously you get very little guarantees of isolation, but for production servers which only run trusted payloads and don't need to extra resource isolation within each server, it is a great option.

In both cases, you still get the benefit of a unique (as in byte-for-byte unique) payload which can be transferred across machines and executed with strong guarantees of repeatability and consistency. That is often a big improvement from shipping provisioning scripts which will dynamically pull dependencies each time, giving you "good enough" repeatability at best. Maybe you forgot to pin a dependency and the mirror was updated between 2 deploys? Maybe the python build on Fedora (staging machine) is not the same as on RHEL (production). Docker solves that. Yes, there are caveats and it's not a silver bullet. And yes, god knows it is over-hyped. But the claims are not bullshit :)
>Christianity has nothing real at it's base. It's just mythology. Yeah, there are a huge number of people who "believe" it.

It has historical relevance, the influence of the church throughout history not the stories in the Bible. AKA Inquisition, influence on the Monarchies, crusades, etc.

It has a huge base of believers who listen to a clergy man every Sunday and some (not all) take to heart what he has to say, this is passed down from the head of the church (the pope and cardinals).

It has huge political sway. Just like the revelations that Snowden did.

In contrast, Snowden revealed something of great importance to the First World (which is probably why you are all fired up about it). He pointed out something that really could be disastrous for our nation. However, the adoption and acceptance of Homosexuals in the third world is also important and Francis could have an affect on that.

>There's about 2 billion Christians. And about 6 billion cellphone subscriptions.

And if the poles are to be believed only 50% of Americans care about this. I can guarantee you there are less Bolivians and Haitians (who have cell phones too) that give a crap about NSA Surveillance. Rest assured, I'm in the percentage that cares, but I'm also not going to write off the contributions of Pope Francis. But this isn't as relevant to EVERYONE as you seem to assume. Also, these are very bad metrics for the affect EITHER Snowden or Francis will have on history.

>So please don't go yapping about how fucking important some half-dead fairytale is.
This is inappropriate and you were being a dick. Yapping? Seriously? I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are just being silly here...

Edit: TL;DR; Even if you take away the belief system in the Catholic church and the Pope has an affect on a huge number of human beings, and that is really what this is all about...
tor exit nodee.
I wonder how you would have turned out as the child of a single parent mentally ill drug addict? I'm assuming that the 5 year old you would have pulled yourself up by your bootstraps (instead of being beaten with them), and you would have succeeded in registering and paying for yourself to get an education, right?
Watch how Capsulr was built (Timelapse)
It's worth checking what people have already calculated, e.g. the wiki article on the topic [0]. There's large amounts of CO2 ice on Mars which could be "evaporated" to create a strong greenhouse effect. Someone thought of orbital space mirrors as an elegant method to do this -- to heat the polar ice caps and sublimate enough to create a runaway greenhouse. Fluorocarbons would take about 10^8 tons, so that might be vaguely plausible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
Free has nothing to do with it. Even if you paid Google to be included in the index, Google's results indicate Google's current opinion.

There's no useful, natural, way to order search results. They are an opinion. If Google wanted to, they could randomize results every day or query just to see what people prefer. No one is owed any particular result. Users are literally asking Google what Google feels is a good answer to a query.
Frank Herbert wrote this story 30 years ago (White Plague -- 1982). I'd be surprised if he were the first to worry about it. So we may be well along in the 50-year progression is all.
Do you have a Docker trusted build for this?

http://blog.docker.io/2013/11/introducing-trusted-builds/
Ask HN: Are Netflix/Paypal making it too easy for scammers? Maybe is just me ...
Try this ...

1. Go to this page https://signup.netflix.com/Gift/Select?, select the number of months you want to gift (or sell ...) and a nice design of your choice.

2. Continue with the process, use your account info: email and password (or one of the ones you got as part of your business operation ...) and get logged in without even noticing (nice!!!).

3. Finally, hit Purchase in the following screen, and use whatever payment method you have in your account, very convenient, no need to provide any additional information. Why bother to think that it may not be you who is doing the purchase (maybe some lessons from Amazon could help here!!!).

I guess in this forum there is no need to get into any more detail, but there is only another point I want to make:

Does Paypal has any responsibility on this?

In my opinion, they do, someone from Paypal's Executive Office called me and the main argument was the convenience they provide (allowing Netflix to charge my account without my permission), and that there is an option in Netflix to avoid these charges (haven't found it yet). On the other hand, if this option exists, why it's enable by default, because I don't remember having opt in for these charges.

Paypal: what about forcing authentication on new non-recurrent charges, nah, why bother, let's deal with this on a dispute by dispute basis, that's much cheaper and increases customer sat, no question about it.

Anyway, if you don't want to bother and comment if you agree or not, but you are a Netflix subscriber, at least make sure you are not giving away gifts without noticing, and please let me know if you find the option to enable/disable these kind of charges.
> however with that being said: the app is free and has no ads.... they must have some crazy ideas in stock.

Gonna go out on a limb here and predict that they'll do the old, "wait until we have a gazillion users, then start injecting ads."
Marketing? You know, advertising, social media, word of mouth, etc.
Twitter simplifies messaging, adds photos to DMs
Now for the crash ... (the retirement accounts are usually the last ones holding the bag)
"Allowed Google to have been her sole source of traffic?"

It's one of the realities of the world we live in that Google - if you're popular on it at all - will likely dwarf any other traffic you're pulling in, despite any other efforts you may make.

Further, it's important to note that effort spent on optimizing your Google ranking is usually an order of magnitude more effective than time spent optimizing for any other search engine. For people with very limited time outside of their primary activity, you've got to prioritize.

(That said, the rest of your comment was spot-on. I just felt the last part of the last sentence didn't really reflect a few key realities, is all.)
You are never leaving the american sector[1].

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bi...
I don't have any data, but from everything I've observed the "sexting" aspect of Snapchat is wildly overblown. Most people just use it for goofy little communication between friends.

I guess people keep bring it up because they think it's funny or think it makes them seem cynical, but it would be a mistake to think Snapchat is primarily used for sexting.
I thought about that but my local resources are significantly better than any cheap VM, plus it doesn't solve the connectivity stuff.

Ideally a dropbox-esque solution will emerge that lets me use a project vm locally with a web (or other) IDE, through a hosted web IDE service, or with the option to deploy projects + etc to whatever server you want.
for the non-Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_retirement_account
What's really offensive and scary is that it's obviously worth more than $360 per year.
Yeah I have actually. It's horrible and really unreliable when document sizes get realistic (40+ pages). Not only that it's so easy to fuck up the document structure badly.

I wouldn't use Excel files on a network. I'd use a database or chuck the xlsx into SVN. Changes to complex data need to be managed. Don't expect miracles. There are edge cases where Google Docs will get this wrong. Sync needs human decisions made occasionally.

See my other comments about usage of SVN/Sharepoint and the use cases.

Office 365 is sharepoint. Skydrive is actually a variety of sharepoint. The interface isn't great but neither is google docs, which is why larger companies tend to just use Sharepoint Workspace which is a desktop app for accessing sharepoint portals.
This was a mistake from my part, corrected.
Fairly easy if your job description fits into one of the 13 designated jobs and you are from North America. Computer Systems Analyst and Graphic Designer are two that can work for startups - but whatever you do, do not include "programming" or "programmer" in your job description or tell the border agent you are a programmer. "Programming" or "programmer" is a huge red flag for the TN-1.

In fact, Microsoft brings on a lot of Canadian developers via TN Computer Systems Analyst and outright tells them to lie at the border and say they don't do any programming.
yeahhhhhhhh... first thing i thought when i saw this: "this is dark"
Uh.... this cannot seriously have been a thing?

Is this how I have to get Thiel to invest in me?
Ok, gonna be more specific, but I meant the classical notion of causality. Ball A hits ball B that hits ball C, where each effect occurred in respective chronological order that was given.

Quantuum theory proves that ball A can hit ball B that will travel back in time and hit ball C before ball B was hit. The causality isn't as narrow as in classical physics.

Also another thing to note - that all molecules in any matter move in random direction all the time, as so much their bounds allow them. It is not inconceivable that all molecules of a gold coin could simply move in the same direction and flip the coin by themselves. Chances of gold coins flipping on their own aren't impossible, just very very very very... improbable.
>Undeserved stereotypes don't have any place here

The FACT that most Republicans still consider climate impact and/or manmade global warming an overblown hoax isn't a "undeserved stereotype" unless one is to devolve into fantasy.

As a self-proclaimed pragmatist, you should be above this fantasy.

http://www.people-press.org/2013/11/01/gop-deeply-divided-ov...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-republicans-reject-climate...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-mooney/the-science-of-tr...
The Bulletproof Suit
> Non-citizens shouldn't be able to get a SS number

...nope, anyone employed in the US can get a social number. If you are not employed, but still have some form of taxable income (i.e, a scholarship) you can get a taxpayer identification number instead.

Citizenship is not required for a SSN - trust me, I know!
hi josh! ah yes my bad :( will update soon. trying to scramble and upgrade a lot stuff since we hit firebase and server limits.
But the answer we give now to the question of what will we do tells us something about us, regardless of whether we're actually right or not. Which, in addition, is what good science fiction does; paraphrasing Ursula Le Guin, it invents lies to tell the truth about who we are, right now.
The notion of two tiered economy is overly simplified. It allows people to believe that they might be on or close to the upper side of the divide. Wealth and money (richness) distributions seem to follow power laws.

He moved to SF in 2011 and maybe has a few million dollars from a founding few startups. That sure seems like a lot to people below him. That is peanuts to the people above him who run the city.

The simplistic two tier breakdown is a hindrance to understanding unless it is understood as the divisive control structure it is.
Ah, foolish me, I thought I could find a revision history from within a document.

It takes about 5 seconds to change which revision I'm looking at, in a 30-line document. And it doesn't actually show me which lines changed.

This is still useless.
Although it would be unethical for the Snapchat folks to do a statistical sample to find out, I'd estimate that sexting is no more than 1% of Snapchat, probably more like 0.1% or 0.01%.
You might consider Dropbox, since the Datastore API seems perfect for the persistence (and live syncing) of data. Try the sample task-list app in a couple tabs: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/182037406/js-datastore-a...
SecondMarket's BitcoinTrust appears to still be limited to accredited investors, though.

Wealth tests ought to be just as illegal as other forms of discrimination.
Facebook Is Upworthy's Weakest Link
J1 visa holders are instructed to get SSN, it's not limited to citizens at all.
Steam today shows their software nous, hardware is a very different thing.
thought it was cool for what it was

but i was really hoping I would be able to crash into the big christmas tree at the end but instead the cut scene took over

maybe make the last checkpoint a giant house with a chimney that you have to get in otherwise you lose?
Linux containers are not virtual machines.
I once rode in a taxi where the cabbie regaled me with his retirement plan; each time he'd saved up enough money, he'd go on a trip to Atlantic City and try to win. He was fairly certain that this was a good idea.

Please don't play with more than you can afford to lose. It's bad for bitcoin, and a crash might be bad for you. If you can't afford to retire, society may compel others to help you. Please be responsible.

I'm not a tax lawyer: The tax-free nature of Roth IRAs might render some of the questions of bitcoin taxation less of a concern?
Ask HN: How do you track your company financials? 
We have several great tools for checking on our finances on a weekly or monthly basis, but I'm wondering about tools for checking on the account closer to real time. Any suggestions other than looking at the raw data from the bank account?
Total linkbait. Just google: SF homeless problem. And see how many articles come up, from so many people. Singling this guy out is completely arbitrary. It's also unoriginal, in the general sense.[1] [edit: also, this problem is 40-50 years old, so its not fundamentally new.]

The homeless problem? Spot on, again. Perhaps - just maybe - the city of San Francisco should dedicate some of that time it spends trying to pass inane legislation (circumcision ban, I'm looking at you!) to trying to REALISTICALLY address the homeless problem. This might blow most of your minds, I know - but I've lived in Chicago, DC, NYC, and LA - and there are more homeless people here than those cities combined.

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And about why there are so many homeless… first of all, who cares, because having such destitution in the streets only serves to bring down the mood of the place… but if you must, have you ever considered that the explosion of homeless in SF resulted to the city’s expansion of homeless programs and shelters? In other words, your getting the cause and effect confused. The city attracted, and created by way of its hippy drug happy culture, a slew of schizo drugged out homeless people… and all the soup kitchens are just a responsive measure to all that.

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San Francisco. If there were an official city scent, it would be hobo piss. That's because hobos are everywhere, and piss is what they do for a living. Well, not just piss, obviously. They also drop so much excrement on the escalators in the city's train stations that they're sometimes rendered inoperable from the sheer volume of poo gumming up the works. How bad can it be, you ask? Well, the city had to call in a hazmat team to clean up one recent mess. There was just that much poop. On the escalator. The public escalator.

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[1] EG, "Tech Founder Complains About the Shithole City He's Forced to Make His Millions In". I won't link to it out of principle, but google will send you there. That was a different person, though. Surprise surprise.
A block cipher cannot produce the same output block for two distinct input blocks because it is reversible.
I see all these ways to spend the mythical BitCoins, zero ways fro me to create some.

Is there any feasible way to get any BTC when I only have my home couple of machines (none of which are GPU giants)?
1 million qubit quantum computers by 2025?
I think there's a real correlation between "uses recurring billing" and "scummy".
> That you would put single mothers on welfare in a group with drug dealers and muggers

Single mothers are, in many cases, that way because of making bad life choices. When you're poor and in a bad relationship (or in some cases not even in a relationship), kids aren't such a good idea (or at least that's how it seems to me). No one forces them to have kids (unless they've been raped, in which case I'm more sympathetic to them; how often is that the case?)
I hope the device in Texas is positively identified, I want to see how exactly the car thieves do it.